A lady professor name Dr Zafarina from Malaysia boldly claims her Malay race is one of the oldest race and civilization in the world based on her finding on dna!
The Malay race existed early than Indian and Chinese civilizations!
Furthermore she also claims Austronesian is a sub-race of Malay, the Malay race realm spans from Madagascar to Sri Lanka to mainland Southeast Asia to Indonesia Archipelago to the islands as far as Hawaii!
You may easily search her’s lecture speech and interviews at YouTube https://youtu.be/cy5ZvYUjmqY
Malay race civilization started around 65k years ago at a place name Kelantan!